Workday is a cloud HCM, payroll, and finance suite with a Web Services / REST API catalog spanning Human Capital Management, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent, and Time Tracking.
BambooHR is a cloud HRIS for small and mid-size companies with a REST API for employee records, time off, reports, and webhooks.
Rippling is a workforce platform unifying HR, IT, and Finance with a public REST API covering employees, payroll, devices, and apps.
Gusto is a payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small business with a partner REST API for embedded payroll and HR.
Justworks is a PEO platform providing payroll, benefits, and compliance with an HRIS API for partners and integrations.
Paylocity is a cloud payroll and HCM provider with a REST Web Services API for employees, payroll, benefits, time, and labor cost.
ADP is the largest payroll and HCM provider with the ADP Marketplace and ADP Workforce Now / Run / Vantage APIs for HR, payroll, time, and benefits.
UKG provides UKG Pro and UKG Ready HCM, workforce management, and payroll with a REST API and integration marketplace.
Sage People is a global cloud HR system built on the Salesforce platform with a REST API for workers, employment, leave, and reviews.
Personio is a European all-in-one HR software for SMBs with a REST API for employees, attendance, absences, and applicants.
HiBob is a modern HRIS with a REST API for people data, time off, lifecycle events, performance, and compensation.
Namely is a mid-market HRIS with a REST API covering profiles, time off, benefits, and payroll.
Merge is a unified API platform whose HRIS Unified API normalizes employee, employment, group, time-off, and payroll data across dozens of HRIS systems.
Finch is a unified API for employment systems (HRIS and payroll) covering employee, company, payment, pay-statement, and directory endpoints across hundreds of providers.
Kombo is a European unified HR API normalizing employees, employments, absences, candidates, jobs, and offers across HRIS and ATS providers.
Greenhouse is an applicant tracking and recruiting platform with Harvest, Job Board, and Onboarding APIs for candidates, applications, jobs, and offers.
Lever is a talent acquisition platform whose API covers candidates, opportunities, postings, requisitions, interviews, and offers.
Workable is a recruiting platform with a REST API for jobs, candidates, activities, comments, and offers, plus a partner marketplace.
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise talent acquisition suite with a REST API for candidates, postings, applications, offers, and onboarding.
Ashby is an all-in-one talent platform with a REST API for candidates, applications, interviews, offers, jobs, and feedback.
Lattice is a people-management platform covering performance, engagement, goals, growth, and compensation with a partner API.
Culture Amp is an employee experience platform for engagement, performance, and development with a partner API and integrations marketplace.
15Five is a continuous performance management platform covering check-ins, OKRs, reviews, and engagement, with an API for HRIS-driven user sync.
LinkedIn Talent Solutions provides Recruiter System Connect, Job Posting, Apply-with-LinkedIn, and Talent Hub APIs for talent acquisition and people data integration.
HiPeople is a talent assessment and reference-checking platform with an API for assessments, reference reports, and candidate insights.
Compa is a real-time compensation intelligence platform for talent acquisition teams, providing offer-level pay benchmarks via API.
OpenComp is a compensation planning platform offering pay benchmarks, pay equity, and compensation review tools, with HRIS-driven sync and an API.
aid: hr-and-people
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hr-and-people/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: HR & People
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- HR
- HRIS
- People Operations
- Payroll
- Talent Acquisition
- Performance Management
- Employee Engagement
- People Data
- Workforce Management
- Unified API
description: API and integration profile for the HR and people-operations landscape. This topic
repo catalogs the API surface of HRIS systems, unified HR APIs, payroll providers, talent
acquisition platforms, performance and engagement tools, and people-data services. The focus
is a portable Employee record schema (JSON Schema), schema.org/Person aligned semantics
(JSON-LD), and a shared vocabulary for the people-operations domain.
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hr-and-people:workday
name: Workday
description: Workday is a cloud HCM, payroll, and finance suite with a Web Services / REST API
catalog spanning Human Capital Management, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent, and Time Tracking.
humanURL: https://community.workday.com/api
baseURL: https://services1.workday.com
tags:
- HRIS
- HCM
- Payroll
- Enterprise
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/workday
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:bamboohr
name: BambooHR
description: BambooHR is a cloud HRIS for small and mid-size companies with a REST API for
employee records, time off, reports, and webhooks.
humanURL: https://documentation.bamboohr.com/docs
baseURL: https://api.bamboohr.com/api/gateway.php
tags:
- HRIS
- SMB
- Employee Records
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/bamboohr
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:rippling
name: Rippling
description: Rippling is a workforce platform unifying HR, IT, and Finance with a public REST
API covering employees, payroll, devices, and apps.
humanURL: https://developer.rippling.com
baseURL: https://api.rippling.com
tags:
- HRIS
- Payroll
- IT
- Workforce Platform
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/rippling
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:gusto
name: Gusto
description: Gusto is a payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small business with a partner
REST API for embedded payroll and HR.
humanURL: https://docs.gusto.com
baseURL: https://api.gusto.com
tags:
- Payroll
- HRIS
- Benefits
- SMB
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/gusto
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:justworks
name: Justworks
description: Justworks is a PEO platform providing payroll, benefits, and compliance with an
HRIS API for partners and integrations.
humanURL: https://www.justworks.com/developers
tags:
- PEO
- Payroll
- Benefits
- HRIS
- aid: hr-and-people:paylocity
name: Paylocity
description: Paylocity is a cloud payroll and HCM provider with a REST Web Services API for
employees, payroll, benefits, time, and labor cost.
humanURL: https://www.paylocity.com/our-products/integrations
baseURL: https://api.paylocity.com
tags:
- Payroll
- HCM
- HRIS
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/paylocity
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:adp
name: ADP
description: ADP is the largest payroll and HCM provider with the ADP Marketplace and ADP
Workforce Now / Run / Vantage APIs for HR, payroll, time, and benefits.
humanURL: https://developers.adp.com
baseURL: https://api.adp.com
tags:
- Payroll
- HCM
- Enterprise
- Marketplace
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/adp
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:ukg
name: UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
description: UKG provides UKG Pro and UKG Ready HCM, workforce management, and payroll with a
REST API and integration marketplace.
humanURL: https://developer.ukg.com
tags:
- HCM
- Workforce Management
- Payroll
- Enterprise
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/ukg
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:sage-people
name: Sage People
description: Sage People is a global cloud HR system built on the Salesforce platform with a
REST API for workers, employment, leave, and reviews.
humanURL: https://developer.sage.com/hr
tags:
- HRIS
- Global HR
- Salesforce Platform
- aid: hr-and-people:personio
name: Personio
description: Personio is a European all-in-one HR software for SMBs with a REST API for
employees, attendance, absences, and applicants.
humanURL: https://developer.personio.de
baseURL: https://api.personio.de
tags:
- HRIS
- SMB
- Europe
- Recruiting
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/personio
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:hibob
name: HiBob
description: HiBob is a modern HRIS with a REST API for people data, time off, lifecycle
events, performance, and compensation.
humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com
baseURL: https://api.hibob.com
tags:
- HRIS
- People Data
- Modern HR
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/hibob
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:namely
name: Namely
description: Namely is a mid-market HRIS with a REST API covering profiles, time off,
benefits, and payroll.
humanURL: https://developers.namely.com
baseURL: https://api.namely.com
tags:
- HRIS
- Mid-Market
- aid: hr-and-people:merge
name: Merge HRIS
description: Merge is a unified API platform whose HRIS Unified API normalizes employee,
employment, group, time-off, and payroll data across dozens of HRIS systems.
humanURL: https://docs.merge.dev/hris/overview
baseURL: https://api.merge.dev/api/hris
tags:
- Unified API
- HRIS
- Integration Platform
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/merge
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:finch
name: Finch
description: Finch is a unified API for employment systems (HRIS and payroll) covering
employee, company, payment, pay-statement, and directory endpoints across hundreds of
providers.
humanURL: https://developer.tryfinch.com
baseURL: https://api.tryfinch.com
tags:
- Unified API
- Employment Systems
- HRIS
- Payroll
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/finch
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:kombo
name: Kombo
description: Kombo is a European unified HR API normalizing employees, employments, absences,
candidates, jobs, and offers across HRIS and ATS providers.
humanURL: https://docs.kombo.dev
baseURL: https://api.kombo.dev
tags:
- Unified API
- HRIS
- ATS
- Europe
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/kombo
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:greenhouse
name: Greenhouse
description: Greenhouse is an applicant tracking and recruiting platform with Harvest, Job
Board, and Onboarding APIs for candidates, applications, jobs, and offers.
humanURL: https://developers.greenhouse.io
baseURL: https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v1
tags:
- ATS
- Recruiting
- Talent Acquisition
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/greenhouse
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:lever
name: Lever
description: Lever is a talent acquisition platform whose API covers candidates,
opportunities, postings, requisitions, interviews, and offers.
humanURL: https://hire.lever.co/developer
baseURL: https://api.lever.co/v1
tags:
- ATS
- CRM
- Talent Acquisition
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/lever
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:workable
name: Workable
description: Workable is a recruiting platform with a REST API for jobs, candidates,
activities, comments, and offers, plus a partner marketplace.
humanURL: https://workable.readme.io
baseURL: https://www.workable.com/spi/v3
tags:
- ATS
- Recruiting
- SMB
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/workable
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:smartrecruiters
name: SmartRecruiters
description: SmartRecruiters is an enterprise talent acquisition suite with a REST API for
candidates, postings, applications, offers, and onboarding.
humanURL: https://developers.smartrecruiters.com
baseURL: https://api.smartrecruiters.com
tags:
- ATS
- Talent Acquisition
- Enterprise
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/smartrecruiters
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:ashby
name: Ashby
description: Ashby is an all-in-one talent platform with a REST API for candidates,
applications, interviews, offers, jobs, and feedback.
humanURL: https://developers.ashbyhq.com
baseURL: https://api.ashbyhq.com
tags:
- ATS
- Talent Operations
- Analytics
properties:
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/ashby
type: APIEvangelistProfile
- aid: hr-and-people:lattice
name: Lattice
description: Lattice is a people-management platform covering performance, engagement, goals,
growth, and compensation with a partner API.
humanURL: https://lattice.com/api
tags:
- Performance Management
- Engagement
- People Management
- aid: hr-and-people:culture-amp
name: Culture Amp
description: Culture Amp is an employee experience platform for engagement, performance, and
development with a partner API and integrations marketplace.
humanURL: https://www.cultureamp.com/integrations
tags:
- Engagement
- Performance Management
- Employee Experience
- aid: hr-and-people:15five
name: 15Five
description: 15Five is a continuous performance management platform covering check-ins, OKRs,
reviews, and engagement, with an API for HRIS-driven user sync.
humanURL: https://help.15five.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002374972
tags:
- Performance Management
- Engagement
- OKRs
- aid: hr-and-people:linkedin-talent-solutions
name: LinkedIn Talent Solutions
description: LinkedIn Talent Solutions provides Recruiter System Connect, Job Posting,
Apply-with-LinkedIn, and Talent Hub APIs for talent acquisition and people data integration.
humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent
tags:
- People Data
- Talent Acquisition
- Social
- aid: hr-and-people:hipeople
name: HiPeople
description: HiPeople is a talent assessment and reference-checking platform with an API for
assessments, reference reports, and candidate insights.
humanURL: https://www.hipeople.io/api
tags:
- Talent Assessment
- Reference Checking
- People Data
- aid: hr-and-people:compa
name: Compa
description: Compa is a real-time compensation intelligence platform for talent acquisition
teams, providing offer-level pay benchmarks via API.
humanURL: https://www.compa.as
tags:
- Compensation
- People Data
- Talent Acquisition
- aid: hr-and-people:opencomp
name: OpenComp
description: OpenComp is a compensation planning platform offering pay benchmarks, pay
equity, and compensation review tools, with HRIS-driven sync and an API.
humanURL: https://www.opencomp.com
tags:
- Compensation
- Pay Equity
- People Data
common:
- type: APIEvangelistTopic
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/hr-and-people
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/hr-and-people-employee-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/hr-and-people-employment-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
url: json-structure/hr-and-people-employee-structure.json
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/hr-and-people-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/hr-and-people-vocabulary.yml
- type: Example
url: examples/hr-and-people-employee-example.json
- type: Example
url: examples/hr-and-people-employment-example.json
- type: Features
data:
- name: Employee Record Schema
description: Portable JSON Schema for an Employee record covering identity, employment,
compensation, and lifecycle fields shared across HRIS systems
- name: Schema.org Person Alignment
description: JSON-LD context aligning the Employee vocabulary with schema.org/Person and
schema.org/EmployeeRole for linked-data interoperability
- name: HR Provider Catalog
description: Catalog of HRIS, unified HR, payroll, ATS, performance, and people-data API
providers with links to their developer documentation
- name: Unified HRIS Coverage
description: Includes the major unified-HRIS API platforms (Merge, Finch, Kombo) that
normalize employee data across dozens of underlying HRIS and payroll systems
- name: People Operations Vocabulary
description: Shared vocabulary mapping employee, employment, compensation, time-off,
performance, and recruiting concepts across the HR landscape
- type: UseCases
data:
- name: HRIS Integration Mapping
description: Map a customer's HRIS data into a normalized Employee record for downstream
consumers (provisioning, analytics, compensation, security)
- name: Talent Acquisition Pipeline
description: Catalog ATS and recruiting APIs feeding candidate, application, offer, and
hire data into an HRIS or data warehouse
- name: People Data Warehouse
description: Build a people-data warehouse keyed on the Employee schema, joining HRIS,
payroll, performance, and engagement records
- name: Compensation Benchmarking
description: Combine HRIS employee/compensation records with compensation-intelligence APIs
(Compa, OpenComp) for offer and review benchmarks
- name: Joiner-Mover-Leaver Automation
description: Drive identity and access lifecycle off HRIS lifecycle events (hire, transfer,
termination) via webhooks or unified-API event streams
- name: AI Capabilities for HR Workflows
description: Provide governed AI capabilities (resume parsing, offer generation,
compensation analysis, headcount planning) grounded in the Employee schema
- type: Integrations
data:
- name: HRIS Providers
description: Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, Gusto, Justworks, Paylocity, ADP, UKG, Sage
People, Personio, HiBob, Namely
- name: Unified HRIS APIs
description: Merge HRIS, Finch, Kombo
- name: Applicant Tracking
description: Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Ashby
- name: Performance and Engagement
description: Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five
- name: People Data and Compensation
description: LinkedIn Talent Solutions, HiPeople, Compa, OpenComp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: [email protected]
